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The José Huizar-Rudy Martinez 14th District Council Race Becomes One for the Ages

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world of cocaine by (allegedly!) doing it all himself.

Then there is José Huizar vs. Rudy Martinez. istory is littered with great combatants While three weeks remain before voters decide and battles. They run the gamut, from the whether Huizar will keep his 14th District City fledgling United States going 2-0 in wars Council seat, it is safe to say that this race is, well, with Great Britain to Muhammad Ali triumphing epic. In the past couple months, the two have torn into each other with a ferocity usually only exhibTHE REGARDIE REPORT ited by a lioness protecting her cub. They declared over big George Foreman in the jungle of Zaire. The a truce last week, but who really expects that to Jets tangled with the Sharks in West Side Story, VHS hold? pageof11the bad, the strange and the crushed Betamax and Charlie Sheen tried to ridsee the xxxxxxxxxxxx, This is a race

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ugly, one replete with what-the-heck-were-theythinking moments. It’s the first campaign I’ve ever seen where I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the midst of a debate in the final weeks, one candidate jumps over the table and bites the other one in the heart — only to find out there is no heart there.

Perhaps the most amazing thing is, this shouldn’t be a race at all. Huizar has a large money advantage, having sucked up $339,000 to Martinez’s $260,000, according to the most recent see Election, page 11

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elated Companies, the developer of the long delayed, $3 billion Grand Avenue mega project, is working on plans to fast-track a scaled down residential tower originally tied to a later phase.

The firm is facing a Feb. 15 deadline to break ground on the Frank Gehry-designed first phase of the project. On Monday, the Grand Avenue Authority, a joint city-county panel overseeing the development, is slated to consider a two-year extension that Related has been seeking since August.

At the same time as Related looks to buy more time for phase one, which would create two luxury residential towers with a boutique hotel and 250,000 square feet of retail, it is

working on plans for an apartment tower on a different parcel.

The change in direction stems from Related’s inability to secure financing for the larger phase one.

“We are working on a proposal for the Grand Avenue Committee and joint powers authority ultimately to consider that we believe would be financeable and feasible in today’s climate,” said Bill Witte, president of Related California.

The tower would rise on what is currently a surface parking lot on lower Grand Avenue, south of Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko Way and the planned Broad Art Foundation museum.

The site, known as parcel “M,” is owned by the Community Redevelopment Agency. The see Grand Ave., page 10

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Bill Witte, president of Related California. The firm is trying to fast-track an apartment complex that was originally scheduled for a later phase of the $3 billion Grand Avenue plan.

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AROUNDTOWN Perry Predicts a Mayoral Campaign ‘Dogfight’

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t least one thing separates Councilwoman Jan Perry from the numerous other local officials who are said to be considering running for mayor in 2013 — she’s not being coy. At a meeting of the Los Angeles Current Affairs Fourm on Thursday, Feb. 10, she said she is looking forward to being able to file papers in March for the race to succeed Antonio Villaraigosa. She also knows it is going to be a crowded field, and said she expects everyone who has said they are considering running will actually enter the race. That includes officials such as Council President Eric Garcetti, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, City Controller Laura Chick, state Sen. Alex Padilla, First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner and businessman Rick Caruso.

“It’s gonna be a dogfight,” Perry predicted, though she said she believes that the campaign can be more civil than some past and current city elections. “I think we will be able to elevate the intellectual discourse and discussion and debate, and I think that will be very helpful,” she said. She also had one prediction regarding what will happen with her competitors. “What do I think?” she said to the question from event moderator and KCAL9/CBS2 political reporter Dave Bryan. “I will smote them all.” She was joking. We think.

‘Top Chef’ Contestant To Helm Water Grill

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Los Angeles native who attended Le Cordon Bleu in London and has worked at restaurants such as Melisse and Patina in Los Angeles. She was the executive sous chef at Paperfish, then moved to Ford’s Filling Station. She joined LeFevre at Water Grill last summer.

A Double Dip Of Economic Analysis

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here are two big economic events in Downtown Los Angeles this week. On Wednesday, Feb. 16, the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation presents its 2011-2012 Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook, with LAEDC Chief Economist Nancy Sidhu discussing regional matters, and releasing a special report focusing on ties between the economies of Japan and Los Angeles County. The event is 7:30-10 a.m. at the Marriott Hotel, 333 S. Figueroa St. Registration is at laedc.org. The following day at noon, the Central City Association offers the Downtown Los Angeles Economic Forecast. The event at the Sheraton Downtown hotel, at 711 S. Hope St., also features Sidhu, this time discussing the economic trends in the city and their impacts on Downtown’s commercial and residential real estate.

Registration and information are at ccala.org.

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he may have come in sixth in Bravo’s reality show “Top Chef,” but Amanda Baumgarten is the top choice for Water Grill, which last week announced that she is the Downtown seafood establishment’s next executive chef.

“We conducted a national search, interviewed many talented chefs,” said Jeff Goodman, chief operating officer of King’s Seafood Company, in a statement. “After rounds of interviews and menu tastings, it became crystal clear that the best chef for the job was already in our kitchen.” Baumgarten was sous chef at Water Grill under David LeFevre, who announced in September that he was leaving the restaurant after six years to open his own establishment. Baumgarten, 27, is a

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he Los Angeles Opera is bringing back a series of free shows. The company last week announced that it will offer two performances of Benjamin Britten’s Noah’s Flood on March 19 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Tickets will be available Monday, Feb. 14, at 10 a.m.

Company Music Director James Conlon will lead the performances, which will feature baritone Richard Paul Fink and mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey. Noah’s Flood is a colorful pageant where children play all the animal roles, parading two-by-two into the ark. The performances will take place at 4 and 7 p.m. Advance tickets are required; there will be a $1 per order handling fee and a four-ticket limit per household.

Reservations are at laopera.com or (213) 972-8001.

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Thousands of people filled Central Plaza in Chinatown on the weekend of Feb. 5-6 for the Chinese New Year celebration. They welcomed the Year of the Rabbit.

Hungry Hungry Theater

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owntown-based Cornerstone Theater Company is known for spending years producing plays about specific themes — last year it finished focusing on the concept of justice.

Now, it is looking to take on hunger, and is reaching out to audiences for their thoughts and experiences. The troupe, headquartered on Traction Avenue in the Arts District, wants to hear stories regarding foods that remind you of home, food rituals, where your food comes from, and even special recipes, all in anticipation of a four-year cycle of plays. The works will focus on issues of hunger, nutrition, health, the environment and access to food. The productions will begin in the fall with The Hunger Festival, a traveling show of short pieces and art installations that explore issues of food supply. Food story submissions should be made at cornerstonetheater.org/yourstory.

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Trial by Rep Nine actors tackle three plays in a theatrical marathon.

Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Forget My Name Wednesdays through Sundays, now through March 6 For a full listing of performance dates, go to usc.edu/calendar

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It’S the Iron Man of the theatre world: three plays in rotation, a different one every night, and two different shows on Sundays. Now in its third year, USC’s spring MFA Acting Repertory program pushes artists beyond the limits of their “type” in what USC School of Theatre dean Madeline Puzo calls “the triumph of miscasting.” This year’s multiplay rep features two classics – Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a romantic comedy of cross-gender mistaken identities, and Chekhov’s Three Sisters, inspired by the Brontë family. The third, Forget My Name, is a new work created by the MFA actors and faculty director David Bridel, based on the strange case of Frédéric Bourdin, a French serial impostor who had assumed 39 false identities as of 2005.

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An Afternoon with W. S. Merwin Wednesday, Feb. 16, 4:30 p.m.

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by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, poet W. S. Merwin seems rooted in the 20th century.

Yet at 83, he is proving himself a 21st-century phenomenon too. Having earned his second Pulitzer Prize for The Shadow of Sirius, a book of verse published in 2008, he currently serves as the 2010-11 U.S. Poet Laureate.

This Wednesday, you can hear this master wordsmith speak and read from his opus at an intimate gathering hosted by USC’s English department.

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Reach Out to Art Walk

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ast September, the popular but troubled Downtown Art Walk was thrown a life preserver when a group of property owners agreed to contribute $200,000 to maintain the event. It was a wise decision, considering the attention and commerce the happening on the second Thursday of every month brings.

Additionally, it’s a great reputation builder and marketing tool for the Historic Core.

Already some things have changed.

A permanent executive director, Joe Moller, was hired to replace the volunteers who formerly oversaw the event that attracts upwards of 20,000 people. Moller recently told Los Angeles Downtown News that a primary goal is to make Art Walk self-sufficient — read, not funded (or at least not fully funded) by the property owners.

This means private sponsorships, and while some might recoil at small businesses or even corporations having a prominent presence on what started as a grass-roots event, it will be necessary for the happening to continue. Moller has promised to search for partnerships that fit with the “essence” of Art Walk.

Few other details have been provided as he ramps up (last Thursday was the second Art Walk he oversaw), so it’s difficult to know if we’re on the path to booths lining the event, or something like one day having, say, the FiatChrysler Art Walk or the Papa John’s Art Walk.

Moller is also smartly focused on various forms of future outreach. He plans to use the Art Walk website and other resources to inform attendees about things like gallery shows and parking before they come Downtown.

The goal is to make the event manageable and safe, both for the public and the LAPD. Equally important is Moller’s plan to have regular meetings with area stakeholders to ensure they have a voice and a mode of communication.

He has said he plans to meet with gallery owners every other month, and to hold a quarterly “Town Hall” style session. This is a great idea, and hopefully community stateholders will use it as an opportunity both to raise concerns and to offer constructive ideas about Art Walk, now and into the future.

Art Walk’s ultimate success and failure won’t be determined for a long time. That said, the expanded board and Moller are starting out the right way, with a focus on the community and communication. As they reach out, Downtown should reach back.

This could and should continue to be a great event for Downtown Los Angeles.

Move Toward a Life With Fewer Wheels

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veryone who spends time in Downtown Los Angeles knows how difficult it is to get around the community via car. Still, it’s the way the vast majority of the local workforce and residential population travels. That’s because, even if it is sometimes difficult and everyone understands how bad excessive driving is for the environment — not to mention how expensive parking can be once you reach your destination — the car is still easier for most people than alternative modes of transportation such as cabs, buses, the subway, biking or even walking.

People have spent years searching for solutions and alternatives, though these have never amounted to more than drops in a mammoth bucket. While the occasional person who opts to live without a car deserves applause, the reality is that he or she is vastly outnumbered by new Downtown residents or employees who drive.

To date, the effort to get people out of their personal vehicles has been a noble if losing battle.

This is why a concentration of proposed mass and alternative transit options is exciting. These, as well as some other past ideas, are worth encouraging. Though they may not reverse the troublesome trend, they could prevent it from getting worse.

Proposals are currently underway for a Downtown streetcar, a two-mile light rail transit link called the Regional Connector and, most recently, a set of bike lanes on Figueroa Street that would be protected from automobiles. If — and yes, that’s a very big word — they come together, they could have a not inconsequential impact on the congestion and auto exhaust in Downtown. It is important, as the conversation goes forward, to keep these

and other options in mind together, rather than try to solve the problem piecemeal. There is no single traffic silver bullet.

An exciting if possibly pie-in-the-sky option is protected bike lanes, one in each direction, on Figueroa Street between Seventh Street and Exposition Park. The proposal, on which Los Angeles Downtown News reported last week, is currently being studied by the Community Redevelopment Agency as part of an overall effort to revamp Figueroa. In an ideal world, the lanes, which are popular in some European cities, would open here by 2013. They would be set off from traffic by barricades to make cycling safer.

Another exciting element is that it could remove traffic from the jammed 110 Freeway.

Further, the specialized lanes would coincide with a wealth of Figueroa Street upgrades that could one day lead to more pedestrians and street-front businesses. It may only be a dream right now, but it is an enticing one.

A more likely, and much more expensive option, is the Regional Connector. The approximately $1.3 billion system would make it easier for people to travel to and through Downtown on a series of local light rail lines.

A group of Downtown business players continues to press for a station at Fifth and Flower streets to be included in environmental studies for the project. As this page has noted before, that is an important and worthy fight, as the mass of Financial District employees needs every option and excuse possible to get out of the car.

Another project that has been floating for several years, and is still moving forward, is the Downtown streetcar. The line, currently

priced at $125 million, will be difficult to pull together, as property owners along and probably near the route would be taxed to pay for its construction and operation (they would fund about half of it, with the public sector picking up the rest). Indeed, the exact path and the mechanics of how the money would come together will ultimately determine whether Downtown will support it.

That said, the streetcar has important champions in Downtown council members José Huizar (who initiated the idea) and Jan Perry, as well as Anschutz Entertainment Group President and CEO Tim Leiweke, all of whom last week appeared at a press event to tout the project’s potential job creation and economic impact. While the elected leaders’ role is vital, Leiweke’s support is equally important, considering that AEG would have the single largest assessment on the project. The company’s signing on to a streetcar that would connect L.A. Live and the Music Center, with a principal spine on Broadway, raises the possibility of this happening.

One streetcar benefit is its potential to promote circulation for those already in Downtown — yes, another reason to leave the car in the garage. While some have correctly surmised that a fleet of DASH buses could accomplish the same thing, for whatever reason this has never appeared possible. New-era streetcars have worked in other urban cores, and they seem to excite the imagination.

This is an interesting and exciting time for Downtown’s transportation future. These projects all merit embrace, presuming funding concerns can be balanced, especially when they are looked at together.

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Officials Question El Pueblo Legal Claim Merchants’ Move for $52 Million Shocks Downtown Leaders

by Richard Guzmán city editor

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hen 14th District City Councilman José Huizar saw that a group of Olvera Street merchants had filed a legal claim against the city for $52 million, he was taken aback.

“I don’t know where that came from,” he said last week, following a press conference for the Downtown streetcar.

“Who knows where they got that number?”

The Olvera Street Merchants Association, which for years has been at odds with the city over rents, filed the claim Jan. 31, two months after rejecting the latest rental deal it was offered. The claim is the first step before filing a lawsuit.

Despite the legal maneuver, city officials say negotiations will continue in hopes of avoiding a lengthy legal tangle.

“There’s still room for negotiation,” Huizar said. “We’re going to meet again and I hope that this results in mutually agreed-upon leases.

In December, officials with City Attorney Carmen Trutanich’s office said city leaders have to determine what steps to take next. However, they said that after the latest deal was rejected, Trutanich was not interested in restarting negotiations.

That stance aside, a City Attorney’s official confirmed that negotiations are continuing.

In the claim, the merchants say the dispute stems from the city and the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority’s denial “of the Olvera Street Merchants’ rights to a long term lease and fair and reasonable terms.” Merchants claim they deserve the 55-year terms signed by 17 tenants more than a decade ago.

A letter sent from Trutanich to Huizar last year said that is not the case, and the city is permitted but not required to enter into long-term concession agreements.

Paul Hamilton, an attorney who represents about 45 merchants, did not return calls for this story. However, the claim says the $52,375,000 in damages the merchants are seeking covers the remaining 43-year lease terms, which includes loss of profits, new rent they would have to pay if they are evicted,

relocation costs and attorney’s fees.

Huizar is not the only official balking at the number.

“It’s an absurd amount,” said Herbert Siguenza, president of the El Pueblo Commission, the mayoral appointed panel that oversees operations at El Pueblo. “I’m frustrated with the politics of the place…. There’s no basis for that number.”

Although Siguenza said merchants are likely using the claim as a legal maneuver to distract from the “bigger issues,” he agreed that talks need to continue to avoid the case wallowing in court.

“This reminds me of Old L.A. where people just kept suing each other,” he said, referring to a long-running lawsuit between the city and a developer involved with El Pueblo. “But we need to continue negotiations.”

Punished for the Rules Last April, the commission approved new rents for merchants based on a study commissioned by the city. The report recommended payments of $2-$6.50 per square foot. Many merchants have been paying rents that are well below market rate, some less than $1 a square foot.

The merchants countered with their own study that suggested rates of $1.20-$2 per square foot for most tenants.

Even though the city’s new rents went into effect last April, more than 40 tenants have paid only their old rates, which city officials say costs them about $72,000 per month.

The most recent offer by the city was for 20-year leases with an option to renew for another 20 years, at rates up to 30% below what the city sought in April.

Seven tenants have signed that deal, and have already begun paying the higher rates. However, the legal machinations have prevented those leases from being certified. Siguenza said that the tenants will remain on a month-to-month basis, and the Commission and the City Council cannot approve their deals until the legal process ends.

The situation has frustrated Emily Martinez and her husband Peter, who signed the agreement the city recently offered.

They’ve been paying the higher rents since December.

“We want our leases so we can get on with our lives,” she

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Local officials say there is still room for negotiation after Olvera Street merchants filed a $52 million claim, the first step in a lawsuit, against the city.

said. “We’re paying the new rent, we are struggling. The other ones are just paying their old rents. They’re just putting the difference in their pockets.”

“It’s very unfair. We’re going to get pulled into a fight we’re not looking for,” Peter Martinez said.

Robert Andrade, El Pueblo’s general manager, said once the negotiations with the merchants are concluded, the seven merchants will likely get the same terms as those agreed on by the rest of the tenants.

“I understand the frustrations of those that did sign,” he said. “They’re playing by the rules and we acknowledge and respect their position.

The Martinezes said they plan to continue to attend commission meetings to keep asking the city to finalize their leases while the negotiations drag on.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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Meaningless Game, Huge Money Downtown Gets Ready for All-Star Weekend and Its $85 Million Impact

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hat’s more valuable to Los Angeles?

Is it an NBA championship? Or is it a weekend of star-studded festivities surrounding the NBA’s most meaningless and most manufactured game?

In one corner, the city has the two-time defending NBA champion Lakers. Last year they beat the hated rival Boston Celtics in game seven at Staples Center. Home court advantage meant four local games, and the victory led to the beloved Laker parade down Figueroa Street. The games were, of course, sold out. And bars were practically bleeding purple and gold out the door.

In the other corner, this year Downtown plays host to the 2011 NBA All-Star weekend, from Feb. 18-21, peaking with the Sunday All-Star game. Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol will be there, and so will every other league superstar, including Clippers phenom Blake Griffin. Unlike the NBA Finals, which carry a dramatic, serious mood among players and fans, the All-Star game is all smiles, light-heartedness and parties.

So, which means more to the city?

If you ask local officials and business owners, especially those in the Downtown hospitality and service industries, the competition is not even close. From an economic impact perspective, All-Star weekend obliterates a seven-game NBA Finals series.

According to a study commissioned by the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission, the upcoming AllStar game and the three days of related festivities will generate $85 million in economic impact for the city. That’s almost twice the impact of last year’s nail-biting, riot inducing, media bonanza of an NBA Finals. According to the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, last year’s Finals generated about $45.2 million, or about $11.3 million per game.

“Forget that it maybe is meaningless,” said Kathy

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Kobe Bryant and the other participants in NBA All-Star weekend will help generate $85 million in local spending. The game itself takes place at Staples Center on Feb. 20.

Schloessman, president of the LASEC, who along with Anschutz Entertainment Group helped woo the NBA back to Los Angeles. “There are still a lot of fans who want to see it and there’s a lot of travel dollars. With the NBA Finals it’s really traveling teams and people buying tickets. Most of the people are local, versus most of the people attending this are out-of-towners.”

The Study This year marks the second time in seven years that Los Angeles is hosting the All-Star game, though fans from the past event could be forgiven for not recognizing the area this

time around.

In 2004, L.A. Live did not yet exist. With its completion in 2008, and the opening of the Convention Center hotel last year, the city has boosted its reputation among major event organizers, increasing its convention bookings and attracting marquee events like the All-Star game.

City and business officials always knew the event as a shot in the arm for the economy, but leading up to this year’s festivities, the LASEC found that nobody had quantified the impact. So Schloessman hired Downtown-based economics and research firm Micronomics to dig into the data.

The report estimates the value of ticket sales to the All-Star events at Staples Center, including the famed dunk and threepoint contests, at $14.5 million. Another $36 million will be spent on hotels — the NBA booked a host of them, including eight in Downtown. The rest comes from direct and indirect spending on service goods such as restaurants.

The J.W. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton at L.A. Live, along with the Hilton Checkers, Downtown Marriott, Sheraton, Omni and Wilshire Grand, were all booked by the league, and are sold out for the weekend. The spillover has hotels like the Luxe City Center, Millennium Biltmore and others in Downtown sold out on Friday and Saturday nights.

While the action at Staples Center is sold out, the NBA is hosting its All-Star Jam Session, a four-day basketball festival, at the Convention Center. From Friday through Monday, the public will be able to participate in basketball activities, get autographs and hear from visiting players.

By comparison, the X-Games, another marquee sporting event that occupies multiple Downtown venues over four days, generated more than $50 million, said Marc Liberman, president and CEO of L.A. Inc., the city’s convention and visitors’ bureau.

But the $85 million impact of All-Star weekend ignores at least one additional economic benefit to the city — television cameras showing the sunshine in February.

“When you think about the coverage on television and people walking around in shorts and short-sleeve shirts while viewers are sitting around their fireplaces, they’re going to want to get on an airplane and come here,” Liberman said.

The L.A. Convention Center is at 1201 S. Figueroa St. Information on the NBA Jam Session is at lacclink.com.

Information on All-Star weekend is at nba.com/allstar.

Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.

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previously allocated $10 million to the project.

L.A. Streetcar Inc. is currently preparing a study to determine who would be taxed, which Schatz said is one of two things that still needs to be hammered out, the other being the specific route. The streetcar is planned to ultimately link L.A. Live and Bunker Hill with a principal spine on Broadway.

Officials hope to start construction in 2014 with work taking about 18 months.

Civic and business officials touted the study as a powerful tool to use in convincing the property owners to agree to tax themselves in order to build the project.

“That’s really the whole project,” said Dennis Allen, executive director of the nonprofit L.A. Streetcar Inc. “If the property owners don’t agree to it, we basically don’t have a project. So this was a study to sort of give them more comfort and other data points that say this is going to be a good return on investment for you.”

Officials noted that the biggest single assessment would be paid by AEG, the developer of Staples Center, L.A. Live and the Convention Center hotel. The company is also pursing a South Park football stadium, and Leiweke envisioned a future Downtown Super Bowl in which one-third of the attendees would reach the game via streetcar.

The study also found that the streetcar would help inspire 675,000 square feet of new and rehabilitated office space, add 2,600 housing units, and create 7,200 construction jobs and 2,100 permanent jobs, including positions in retail, entertainment and hotels.

Contact Richard Guzmán at richard@downtownnews.com.

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n an effort to drum up excitement and support for the proposed Downtown L.A. Streetcar, local political leaders and business officials last week touted a new study that says the project will have a serious economic bounce.

The study, prepared by the land-use and economic consulting firm AECOM, found that the project, a centerpiece of 14th District City Councilman José Huizar’s Bringing Back Broadway initiative, would create 9,300 new jobs and spark $1.1 billion in development.

It also said the line, which officials hope to open in 2015, would generate $24.5 million in annual tourism-related spending and $47 million in city tax revenue over the next 25 years.

“We have the numbers to show that it’s a good investment,” Huizar said at a press conference on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. He was joined by Downtown heavyweights including Anschutz Entertainment Group President and CEO Tim Leiweke, Ninth District Councilwoman Jan Perry and Carol Schatz, the head of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District.

The crowd included labor representatives as well as Downtown property owners such as Steve Needleman, David Gray and Cedd Moses, who will likely be asked to pay for a good portion of the up-to $125 million project. More than half of the funding for the streetcar would come from property owners along the route or in the surrounding neighborhood in the form of a special assessment district. The rest of the money would come from local and federal government. The CRA

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Three Big Downtown Projects Are for Sale

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eveloper Related Companies has put its two Little Tokyo apartment complexes, Sakura Crossing and Hikari, on the market. Also for sale is the Pegasus, a 322-apartment Financial District building.

While Related is known for holding its projects for the long-term, the company is selling its two-building Little Tokyo package at the behest of its equity partner in both projects, the state pension fund CalPERS, said Bill Witte, president of Related California.

“They are looking to liquidate or monetize most of their real estate investments, and as the equity partner they have the right to compel a sale,” Witte said.

The buildings are being marketed separately, but are also available as a package.

Related opened the 230-unit Sakura Crossing, at Second and San Pedro streets, in June 2009. It followed the December 2006 opening of Hikari, a sixstory, 128-apartment complex at Second Street and Central Avenue. Both projects have some ground-floor restaurants and are 98% occupied, according to listing agent Moran and Company.

Sakura Crossing and Hikari hit the market at a time when demand for apartment product seems to be on an

upswing, especially from institutional investors. In January, LaSalle Investment Management, which manages investments for pension funds and insurance companies, bought the 204-unit Canvas L.A. in City West for $62.5 million. The property generated more than 20 offers, according to seller representative CB Richard Ellis.

“There is great investor appetite for apartments, especially in core locations, and interest rates are low,” Witte said.

Kor Group turned a former oil company headquarters into the Pegasus in 2001, making it one of the first successful adaptive reuse projects in Downtown.

Buchanan Street Partners invested $100 million in the property in 2008. The project at 612 S. Flower St. has been on the market since December.

Mark Tarczynski, executive vice president with the brokerage firm Colliers, said the market is being driven largely by institutional investors armed with easy capital provided through various federal stimulus programs.

“Because there’s a lot of capital, there’s a lot of competition for good product,” Tarczynski said. “But there’s not a lot of good product. So you’ve got too much money for too few goods.”

Contact Ryan Vaillancourt at ryan@downtownnews.com.

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Grand Ave. Continued from page 1 phase one parcel, east of Walt Disney Concert Hall, is owned by Los Angeles County.

The site was environmentally cleared for two condo towers of up to 35 stories. But Related, which is working with the CRA on schematic designs for the tower, now envisions a shorter apartment building, likely 20-23 stories, Witte said. Twenty percent of the units would be reserved for affordable housing.

Councilwoman Jan Perry, who sits on the five-member Grand Avenue Authority, said she is in favor of the proposed tower if it proves financially feasible.

While demand in the condo market doesn’t support the cost of new construction, current economics may enable a purely rental project, said Witte. He pointed to 717 Olympic and the Watermarke tower in South Park as examples of recent apartment projects that have worked in Downtown.

There remains no concrete timeline or budget for the new proposal. The new tower, which does not yet have an architect, would still require financing. Related is expected to submit schematic designs for the tower to the CRA this month.

Same Waiting Game Related’s request for a two-year extension to break ground on phase one — which occupies the county owned parcel “Q” — is just the latest in a long string of delays. The firm was supposed to break ground in 2007, then 2008 and then in February 2009, when the Grand Avenue Authority granted the

extension that expires Feb. 15. The firm has openly discussed the need for another twoyear extension since last summer.

The delays have come at a price for Related.

Witte said the firm has so far sunk more than $100 million into the project, including $56 million to fund the Civic Park, the only aspect of phase one that is under construction (it’s expected to be completed in May 2012).

Other costs include fees to Gehry and additional designers.

The company has also accrued about $6 million in penalties with the joint powers authority for not meeting its timeline.

The first two-year extension came with a $250,000 per quarter fee for not breaking ground. Under terms of the proposed extension through February 2013, that penalty would cease. Instead, Related would pledge $1 million to the authority upon groundbreaking. In total, the firm would owe $7 million in fees if the extension is approved and phase one breaks ground by February 2013, Witte said.

The proposed extension comes with a key caveat: If the authority can show that another large, $500 million mixed-use project in the state has secured financing, Related will have only six months to break ground on phase one, or lose its development rights.

Meanwhile, the county parcels across from Disney Hall — including the plot immediately east of the phase one site, which is tabbed for phase three — are operating as parking lots.

Some critics of the project formally known as The Grand, including County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, have called for scrapping the plan altogether. Antonovich has repeatedly viewed Related’s extensions as needlessly

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tying up valuable county land. Antonovich, however, does not have a vote on the fivemember joint powers authority.

His colleague on the board, First District Supervisor Gloria Molina, whose district includes Downtown, is likely to support the extension.

“Why go forward with Related? The answer is simple,” said Gerry Hertzberg, Molina’s policy director and a member of the Grand Avenue Committee, which advises the authority. “They’ve operated in good faith, and the market is very flat for large scale projects… we don’t exactly have other developers knocking on our door.”

Master Plans Perry said she has not yet decided how to vote on Related’s extension request. She said she first wants to hear from the authority’s legal advisors on Monday about the implications for the city-owned, phase two parcel if phase one gets another extension.

There is, however, clear precedent for changing phase two without affecting phase one. Last year, the authority approved Related’s swapping of land originally tabbed for retail development for Eli Broad’s $100 million contemporary art museum.

The CRA plans to invest $52 million in a parking facility under the museum, as well as a public plaza just south of the project and wider sidewalks along Grand Avenue. The plaza would sit on a platform above Gen. Thaddeus Kosciuszko Way, making it level with upper Grand Avenue and the museum’s ground floor.

As the CRA boosts its investment in the Grand Avenue improvements, and parcel “M” gets on the fast track, the balance of the joint powers authority is, at least for the moment, leaning toward the city.

Hertzberg said there is no competition between the county and city’s interests on the authority. But Perry said that the difficult market conditions have caused both sides to look more closely at their respective assets.

“My concern extends to the fact that we’re under one umbrella in the authority and I think each one of us, the city and county respectively, would like to exercise control over their own asset in the most advantageous way in terms of getting it developed that didn’t exist there before,” Perry said. “So I think that is the ever-present tension on the board.”

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Election Continued from page 1 public financial reports. With Huizar’s widespread name recognition, two past landslide victories for the seat and the support of both business and labor, this should be as resounding as a Blake Griffin windmill thanks-for-playing-now-get-outof-my-house dunk.

Huizar is still positioned to win the war, but he’s losing a lot of battles, many of them via self-immolation. Keep this up and he’ll snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

On the other hand, don’t overlook political rookie Martinez’s ability to implode. The house-flipping fishmonger (he has an Eagle Rock sushi restaurant) has shown a propensity to stumble.

All this begs a few questions: How did we get here? Why is everyone so darn nasty? And most importantly, who’s going to get all the candy when voters head to the polls on March 8?

What follows are a few highlights of the election so far: Not So Great Debates: The candidates have come together in three public forums. These debates will never be compared to Lincoln-Douglas.

Martinez’s inexperience shows. At forums in Glassell Park last month and Eagle Rock last week, he repeatedly fell back upon tropes rather than specific plans for what he’d do if elected. He dropped the word “transparency” enough to bring to mind Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. If I had a dime for every time he began a statement with “I will fight,” then I’d have a bazillion dimes. He embarked on the easier-said-than-done ideal of being reachable to all district stakeholders, even once giving the amazing, “We will have coffees. We will have teas.”

Everyone to Martinez’s office for a chamomile party!

When asked in Glassell Park about the Community Redevelopment Agency’s attempt to transfer nearly $1 billion to the city so Gov. Jerry Brown doesn’t swipe it, both Huizar and Martinez blew the question. However, Martinez blew it worse.

That, however, was the king’s speech compared to the flub in a debate in the community of Hermon (it does too exist).

When asked for the most unfair claim made by his opponent, Martinez cited an accusation that he once beat his wife, a line that sparked a bewildered Huizar to say he never uttered any such thing. For the record, Huizar’s camp only brought up the fact that Martinez has four 20-year-old arrests on his record.

The wife-beating reference was maybe the 73rd best answer

Martinez could have given. Number one would have been, “I spend too much time talking to people so it’s hard to get consensus.” Number six might have been, “I’m a workaholic.” Heck, he would have fared better had he said, “I once got drunk on Jagermeister, threw eggs in a mailbox and then punched a pony.”

The point is, unless someone asks about beating your wife, don’t volunteer it. Never.

Point to Huizar.

Another Self-Punch to the Face!: Everyone now knows that Huizar likes lists. Even if be beats Martinez, he’ll forever be remembered for ranking residents and stakeholders based on their support for him and their influence in the neighborhood.

The “Community Power Lists” should have been a small story, but Huizar botched it by denying and twisting his answers. Another self-inflicted wound came Jan. 25 when he was late to City Council chambers, leading Council President Eric Garcetti to cancel the session due to a lack of a quorum of 10 people. Even though Huizar was not the only one at fault, no one else who muffed was running for re-election. Oops!

It seems like Huizar’s campaign has a bucket list of crazy things it should try once, just to see what will happen. It even put a check next to “Send Venomous, Career-Killing Email.”

That actually torpedoed what should have been Huizar’s greatest hit of the campaign. Recently, a story about Martinez once possessing a slain police officer’s badge blew up big; Martinez has repeatedly dodged the issue.

However, a press conference to hammer Martinez was abruptly canceled because of the instantly infamous email sent by Huizar campaign manager Michael Trujillo. In the missive, Trujillo threatened “to put a political bullet in between Martinez’s forehead.”

Well, at least he didn’t call Martinez a “disgusting human being.” No wait, he did.

At least he didn’t appear to slam Martinez’s mom by referencing “the vile bag of tripe he emanated from.” No wait, he did that too.

Huizar fired Trujillo and last week apologized. Martinez wound up all over television talking about the incident.

Point to Martinez.

Investing Good, Investigations Bad: By the time this race ends, the 14th District, which includes part of Downtown Los Angeles, may be the most investigated race ever. Both sides are happy to sing about the other’s boo-boos.

The biggest bombshell was the report that the FBI is look-

ing into Huizar for his bank account and work done by Martinez a few years back on a house Huizar owns. Perhaps in the effort to ensure that investigation doesn’t get lonely, the District Attorney’s office recently confirmed to the L.A. Times that it still has an open inquiry on Huizar related to some old consulting work.

Not to be outdone, Team Martinez is under scrutiny from the D.A. for $6,000 in possibly laundered contributions the campaign received, then returned. Martinez himself was investigated five years ago by the LAPD for the badge incident.

Maybe this is like an NBA championship, and the first one with four investigations wins.

Point to Martinez.

Numbers Game: The first poll in the race was conducted

by Team Huizar; it came out in January and gave the incumbent a 58%-13% lead. Results of a Martinez poll, conducted last month and filled with loads of icky leading questions, haven’t been publicly released.

Although Huizar has more cash on hand, both campaigns have enough money to deluge voters with ugly mailers. This is a race where every vote will count, considering that in March 2007, only 13,376 people cast ballots. That’s in a district with 250,000 residents.

Huizar stands to benefit from labor groups that will mobilize people to walk precincts and phone bank for the incumbent. If there was any question, it was answered at Huizar’s Downtown streetcar press conference last week, when the seats were filled with union members who gleefully chanted “Streetcar! Streetcar!”

Point to Huizar.

Random Food Facts: As of last week, the website for Martinez’s Mia Sushi still listed a Huizar Roll on the menu. It contains shrimp tempura with eel and avocado and costs $11.

According to public documents, Huizar in 2008 spent $145.81 on a staff appreciation lunch from his officeholder account. The place where he appreciated said staff? Shakey’s.

Yes, Shakey’s. What, was Chuck E. Cheese booked?

Everyone loses a point.

Coming Next: The fact that Huizar has been hit so hard to date means the blows from both sides will escalate in the final weeks. The accusations and mailers will fly, and on election day each team will mobilize get-out-the-vote squads.

Then again, the winner might be the one who just stops punching himself in the face.

Contact Jon Regardie at regardie@downtownnews.com.

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“People are now living longer because the drugs are so effective in targeting the HIV and bringing the viral load down to undetectable levels,” he says. “It keeps them from succumbing to opportunistic infections, which are the diseases that cause mortality in people with HIV. It keeps the HIV from going to the AIDS diagnosis.”

That’s for the majority of people, Cunningham stresses, adding that there are still people who are diagnosed who suffer incredibly harsh side effects from the drugs, including diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, sore mouths, skin problems, colds, coughs, fevers and general malaise. He notes that the drugs can be toxic to the system.

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Cunningham, who’s been working in the field for 28 years, says that though people’s odds of living long and healthy lives with HIV today are much better than they were in the ’80s, it’s not a given that it’s going to be an easy road. There’s still a long way to go in the fight against AIDS. “It’s still a threat, and it’s a major health concern,” Cunningham says. “You don’t hear about it that often on the news anymore, but it is still something that everyone needs to be concerned about. We need to stop the spread of this disease.”

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Kicking it Old School Grammy Museum Takes a Look at the History and Highlights of Hip-Hop

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“I cried when I got the Tupac lyrwall of colorful sneakers wel- ics in my hands,” she said. “These are comes guests to the second floor his words, these are his thoughts. He of the Grammy Museum. touched this paper and these are unreNext to the sneakers, most of which leased songs he had written that he never have never been worn, are a collection had a chance to record.” of old school “ghetto blasters,” the anBoom Goes the Room photos by Gary Leonard tithesis of the tiny iPod and its diminuBefore people get to Tupac’s lyrics, Nwaka Onwusa, the curator of the Grammy Museum’s new exhibit Hip-Hop: A Cultural tive earpiece. In the middle, music vid- they start off with the boom boxes and Odyssey, sits in front of a giant boom box. The show runs through May 4. eos from artists including Eazy-E and sneakers, perhaps some of the most iconCypress Hill play on a video screen set in ic images of old school hip-hop. a giant boom box.

With names like The Sharp GF 9696z This is Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey, and the Toshiba Boombeat-590, the 10 a new exhibit at the South Park venue. oversized portable radios exemplify the Based on the coffee table book of the same way hip-hop was heard and blasted for title by ARIA Multimedia Entertainment, others to hear. it features dozens of items that trace the “Hip-hop and the boom box were seen 40-year history of hip-hop, from pioneers as defiant, loud, and both had a message,” like Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Onwusa said. “Along with the sneakers, Flash to generation-defining artists such it went with the whole fashion statement as Tupac Shakur and LL Cool J. and saying hey, we’re here, we’re not going The exhibit showcases everything from nowhere, listen to my music and I’m going turntables to clothing. The 53-pair sneak- to blast it loud.” er collection belongs to Everlast of IrishThere is a decidedly throwback feel to American hip-hop group House of Pain. the show. One exhibit features a leathOther highlights of the exhibit are er tour jacket and the turntables from framed handwritten song lyrics by Tupac Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Starts Shakur, Eminem, Wyclef Jean and Five, which formed in 1978 in the South s.com or wntownNew Do at er rn Eazy-E. They were pioneers of cutting Jan.28/Feb.4 nd co Bronx. llist per right ha /forms/mai bol in the up is symvery nnews.com and scratching on the turntables.

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Bob Santelli, the museum’s executive “You may ask why is James Brown director. in here?” Onwusa asked. “Well, James Santelli pointed out that the exhibit is Brown has been sampled and has been a not the definitive history of hip-hop, as huge influence on hip-hop.” the subject is simply too large to do in Next to that is the colorful feather Check Our Website forfanFull Movie Listings Hip-hop Abdul Rahmaan checks outLADowntownNews.com some of the history of the genre at the Grammy Museum. one show. Instead, A Cultural Odyssey, headpiece worn by Pow Wow of Afrika which runs in Downtown Los Angeles Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force.

Fugees and snare drums from Questlove through May 4, is a look at the elements “It’s bright, it’s colorful, it’s an epic stay,” Onwusa said.

West Coast hip-hop also gets a nod of The Roots. and pillars of the music. piece,” Onwusa said. in the exhibit. An outfit worn by the Hip-hop fan Abdul Rahmaan, who “We look at sneakers and we look at Here to Stay boom boxes as things that are reflective The mainstreaming of hip-hop is late Eazy-E, a member of the influential checked out the exhibit last week, said it of hip-hop culture,” Santelli said. “Then also addressed. Onwusa said that began group NWA (which also included Ice is important to shine a light on the hisCube and Dr. Dre), is on display. While tory of the music. of course there are all kinds of things on in the mid-80s.

“A lot of times people look at hipthe artists themselves and a number of A leather suit from Run DMC and the the thick, loose-fitting outfit resembles Starts hop as being something that’s just hapsignificant artifacts that are on displayntownguitar s played by Joe Perry of Aerosmith prison garb, Eazy-E’s Georgio Armani ew N .A.Dow 11 now,” he said as he was looking ok.com/L the vid- pened that have never been onbodisplay before.” are displayed side by side. The Aerosmith sunglasses, which he also wore inFebruary Face Exhibit curator Nwaka Onwusa spent song was covered by the hip-hop group eo, adorn the exhibit as well. The glasses at a Kangol hat once worn by LL Cool J. about a year working on assembling the in 1986. The video included Aerosmith sit below a black baseball cap that reads “They don’t know it has a history.

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Moved by the Music Jane Fonda Digs Into Beethoven And Dominates in Taper’s ’33 Variations’

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n actor’s task is to disappear inside a role. It’s a feat that increases in difficulty with one’s level of fame.

On rare occasions, for example Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven, a real person’s current status — or storied past — adds layers to manufacturing emotional depth.

Jane Fonda fits into this category. At least she does as Dr. Katherine Brandt in Moisés Kaufman’s 33 Variations, which earned her a Tony nomination. The show opened at the Ahmanson Theatre last week, and plays through March 4.

At 73, Fonda looks fit enough to run a marathon, yet she is only a few years younger than her father, Henry, when he portrayed the frail patriarch nearing death in On Golden Pond.

With all of her familial baggage, and a lifetime in the public eye, watching this legend of stage and screen transform in two-and-a-half hours from a vibrant woman to an immobile invalid, due to ALS (the muscular disorder also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease), is particularly shocking.

It’s a testament to her abilities that the echoes of the real Fonda are faint, and they merely enhance this tragedy, which Kaufman, who also directs, carefully infuses with gentle comedy. What unfolds is a satisfying array of emotion.

Fonda shines as Katherine, a musicologist who doesn’t have long to live. She hopes her last act will be to discover what drove Beethoven to create the titular work, a series of variations based on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (Don Amendolia).

Katherine’s daughter, Clara (Samantha Mathis), is a disappointment to her mother because she flits from one career (or man) to the next. Clara has learned of her mother’s illness and wants to find some peace between them before it’s too late.

The other key figure is Beethoven, whose odd obsession with composing the variations has turned into an obsession for Katherine as well. She travels to Beethoven’s hometown of

Bonn, Germany, to search the composer’s extensive archives.

She want to uncover what would drive him to work on a piece of music he apparently considered pedestrian.

Kaufman’s passion is research, and 33 Variations at times becomes a fascinatingly detailed (and aurally thrilling, thanks to pianist Diane Walsh) dissection of the variations. This symposium reaches its zenith when Beethoven verbally composes one of the strongest variations, with Walsh responding to his commands. The result is a flawlessly executed monologue that likely cinched a Tony nomination for Zach Grenier, who plays Ludwig van Beethoven.

While Grenier’s performance is enjoyably larger than life, Fonda’s is sternly understated, and she never compromises the character’s integrity by looking for easy sympathy from the audience. Katherine is a hard-edged woman, and despite personal revelations, Fonda only slightly softens her demeanor around the edges, even when death is near.

With two somber central plots, Kaufman lightens the mood with a romance between Clara and Katherine’s nerdy nurse, Mike (Greg Keller, in one of the funnier supporting performances in recent memory). On the surface their relationship may feel like an afterthought, but Mike’s selfless caring for Clara highlights the idea that some of the biggest heroes are the ones who have the thankless task of always being there for others.

For Beethoven, that help comes from his assistant, Anton Schindler (Grant James Varjas). Similarly, Katherine can’t do her research without Dr. Gertrude Ladenburger (Susan Kellermann), who works at the Beethoven archives.

Like Beethoven’s music, the individual characters are incomplete. But together, there’s harmony, which Kaufman exemplifies when the cast beautifully, quietly, sings “Kyrie Eleison.”

The cast singing — and dancing to the final variation, a minuet — is par for Kaufman, who relishes in the unique-

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ness of live theater. Unafraid to employ any means to reach an audience, he is always thinking visually, as best evidenced

by Derek McLane’s set, which includes four movable screens filled with pieces of Beethoven’s composition paper. Between scenes, actors elegantly move and spin the screens, causing the paper to flap in the breeze, as if Beethoven’s notes are coming to life.

David Lander’s dreamlike lighting seems almost an extension of McLane’s design, literally setting the stage for a seamless melding of Beethoven’s past with Katherine’s present.

That’s what makes 33 Variations more than the sum of its parts. There’s no new ground covered, and Kaufman springs no major surprises. Instead, like Beethoven with Diabelli’s waltz, he transforms a simple story through artistry and honest emotion into something wholly new.

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Wednesday, Feb. 16 ALOUD at the Central Library 630 W. Fifth St., (213) 228-7025 or aloudla.org.

7 p.m.: Fiction writers Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum and Yiyun Li discuss short stories. See the Don’t Miss list for more details.

SCI-Arc Lecture Series W. M. Keck Lecture Hall, 960 E. Third St., (213) 3565328 or sciarc.edu.

7 p.m.: Paris-based Paolo Cascone, principal of COdesignLab, speaks on “Eco Logic Design: Towards High-Tech Design, Low-Tech Construction.”

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2 p.m.: Vocalist Ellen Cooper will host “The Magic of Africa,” addressing the continent’s influence on America and the rest of the world through music, dance and story telling, as well as displays of authentic African masks, fabric and artifacts. Admission is free and open to the public.

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Love Lines 2011

LaSane Robertson… Happy Valentine’s Day baby. I love you so very much. Can’t wait to marry & see you. You’re my world… Dana Wenzel

A Few More Downtowners Express Their Feb. 14 Affection

Enrique… I’m blessed to have you for my husband. I love our life together. Happy Valentine’s Day babe! Love lots and xoxo… Isabel

Ashley… I’m the luckiest man in the world to have your emotional (and physical) warmth as my wife!… Chris

almost 20 years, and you want another 40?? JJ loves you, yahoo!… Ron

Olivia… If had to choose between breathing and loving you, I’ll use my last breath to say I love you… Martin

Hi my Ralphie baby… Happy Valentine’s Day! Love you…

Nell

Happy Valentine’s Day to my dearest Nuvia… R

Manuel… Eres lo mejor que me ha pasado, I love you with all my heart… Lucy :)

Raldorf… Will you be my Valentine? Now I don’t have to buy you any expensive Valentine’s Day flowers… Love, Markie

Trini… I still would love you even though you are 103 years old. I am 95 years old and I love to give you a ride in my wheelchair… Charles

Marisol… My life has been blessed since I met you. You are undoubtedly heaven sent. To our continued success…

Josh

My wife… hope to grow old together forever. You and me till the day we die love… Julio Solis

B2, XP and XQ… Happy Valentine’s Day, Honey-ah and my pumpkins! Joie de vivre! Esprit de corps! Cul de sac!... W Y-S

Annette… Let’s sneak out of here and go make out in the car, forever. I love you… Dennis

Little Jenny… LA, Tahoe, or the beach; we will be ok anywhere as long as we stick together… Love, Rob

Raymond… From the moment I met you I was in love with you and I will love you always and forever… Krista Darius Wilson… I love you so much Hubby and I’m really grateful that I have someone special like you in my life… Patty Bonboncto… A hundred hearts would be too few. To carry all my love for you. Happy Valentine’s Day. Besitos… Papita Gorgeous… Happy Valentine’s Day 13 yo HP CSG, wow,

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